Secondhand Lions (2003)

Robert Duvall: Hub

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Quotes 

• Frankie : Hey, who do you think you are, huh?

  Garth : Just a dumb kid, Hub. Don't kill him.

  Hub : [to Garth]  Right.

  [grabs Frankie by the throat] 

  Hub : I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN and loved only one woman with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!

• Hub : Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

• [Hub and Garth are getting ready to shoot at a traveling salesman] 

  Walter : Why not see what he's sellin'?

  Hub : What the hell for?

  Walter : Well what's the good of having all that money if you're never gonna spend it?

  Garth : Could be the kid has a point.

  Hub : Well. We'll see what the man's sellin'. THEN we'll shoot him.

  Garth : Good plan.

• Hub : [to Stan]  You're lucky the lion got to you before *we* did.

• Garth : Look, we don't know nothing about children, so if you need something...

  Hub : [interrupts]  -find it yourself. Better yet, learn to do without.

• Hub : What do ya want me to do? Die of old age?

• Walter : What happened to her?

  Garth : Looks like her heart gave out in all the excitement. She was plenty old, you know.

  Walter : Look, I think she's smiling.

  Garth : I guess she died happy.

  Hub : She died with her boots on, that's the main thing.

  Garth : Protecting her cub.

  Walter : She was a real lion, wasn't she, there at the end? A real jungle lion. A real Africa lion.

• Helen : You take him to the orphanage right this minute!

  Hub : Whether we take him to the orphanage or tie him up and throw him in the lake, that's OUR business, not yours.

• Walter : If I'm gonna live here, there's gonna be some conditions.

  Hub : Conditions?

  Walter : No more dangerous stuff. No more fighting teenagers. No airplanes. More vegetables, less meat.

• Hub : WE'RE OLD, DAMNIT! LEAVE US ALONE!

  Garth : The last thing we need is some little sissy boy hanging around all summer.

• Hub : We're fixin' to die anytime, so if we kick off in the middle of the night, you're on your own.

• Garth : [after Walter leaves]  Salesman should be by in about three, four hours.

  Hub : Whoop-de-do.

• Garth : [sarcastic]  That's SOME lion you bought.

  Hub : Huh. SOME garden seeds YOU bought!

• Hub : This lion head will sure look good hanging over our fireplace.

  Walter : What fireplace? You don't have a fireplace.

  Hub : We'll buy one.

• Hub : You know what I don't like 'bout houseguests?

  [slams fist on table] 

  Hub : Dinner table chit-chat-chit-chat.

• Hub : She doesn't deserve that kid... Maybe she'll sell him to us. How much money we got?

• Mae : Yoo-hoo!

  Hub : [to Garth]  You send for a hooker?

  Mae : Uncle Hub, Uncle Garth, it's me, Mae!

  [pause] 

  Mae : Mae!

  [another pause] 

  Mae : Pearl's daughter! And I brought Walter, your nephew!

  Garth : [to Hub]  Relatives.

  Hub : Damn!